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From Arthur Mellersh   13 February 1879

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Birthday wishes.

Author:  Arthur Mellersh
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11880

To Hugo de Vries   13 February 1879

Summary

Discusses heliotropism in plant cotyledons. Asks for information.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugo de Vries
Date:  13 Feb 1879
Classmark:  Artis Library (De Vries 5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11881

To Henry Woodward   13 February [1879]

Summary

Has signed a paper [unspecified];

thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Woodward
Date:  13 Feb [1879]
Classmark:  McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Blacker-Wood Manuscript Collection, Woodward Collection of Autographs v. 3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12474
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2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM

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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…

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  • … < Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … some difficulty but with spirit. GRAY:  213   Well. I have got safely through my …
  • … 212 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 31 OCT 1886 213 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 22 NOVEMBER 1886 …

Cambridge

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Preparation and specimens

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  • … Letters about leaving Cambridge, preparing for the voyage, sending specimens, and news from Darwin …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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  • … argument’ supported Darwin’s theory ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 213).  In May 1864, Lubbock received …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …

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  • … 29 march 1913 Breukelen 213 Noordhoek Hegt J. …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…

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  • 213 Noordhoek Hegt J. Assistant Director of the …